As the emerging Hollywood genre of ''cli fi'' continues to capture the world's imagination, the annual Cli Fi Movie Awards -- aka THE CLIFFIES -- honors and recognizes the most important cli fi movies of the year on an annual basis. For 2017, GEOSTORM is in contention for the Cli Fi Movie Awards. SEE THIS MOVIE! -- This blog serves as media outreach. For more info write: danbloom@gmail.com and see ''THE CLI FI REPORT'' at http://cli-fi.net

Sunday, October 26, 2014

Notes to Michael Berry of SALON piece on ''cli fi'' and Paolo Bacigalupi

Hi Michael, GREAT PIECE in SALON!Michael, excellent piece, bravo. I asked Paolo earlier in the year ifI could call his WinddUp Girl etc as cli fi novels, and he replied tome, basically the same as he replied to you: "Dan, I had not heard ofthe cli fi genre term before but it makes sense to me, and sure youcan call me novels as cli fi. I really dont care what label people puton my books as long as they read them!" (emoticon smile followed thisremark) --

RE: His quote here to you, above, "I don't think of myself as writing'cli-fi' but I'll take the label," Bacigalupi said. "I'll take anylabel that makes someone think they might be interested in mystories." [i lovE IT!]

Hi Michael, GREAT PIECE in SALON!.....in addition to cli fi novels in many languages, notjust English, and not just for American readers, there are now cli ficommunities of writers and academics in Germany, Finland, Spain,Chile, China, Taiwan, Japan, France and Norway, among other nations.One day there might appear a cli fi novel with the power of 1957's ONTHE BEACH by Nevil Shute, some cli fi novel to really wake up theworld. But this will take time. Maybe another 20 to 30 years. But somewriters I am sure are "thinking"' and plotting all this now. It willhappen. Cli fi is in the air. People aroudn the world feel it now. AsScott Thill has said "cli fi is a prism, a cultural prism, a criticalprism, in which to see the world we live in today." And Thill isright: cli is not a marketing buzzword, or a bookstore shelvingcategory, it is a cultural PRISM in which to try to understand anddiscuss the world our descendaants will face over the next 500 years.

THE CLIFFIES: And Michael , in connection with cli fi movies, a newmovie awards program called the Cli Fi Movie Awards, and dubbed THECLIFFIES, will debut on Feb. 15, 2015, a week before the Oscars tohonor and recognize the best cli fi movies and scripts and directorsof 2014, and it will become an annual Hollywood event. USA TODAY'sLeslie Miller just did a very good preview of the upciming CLIFFIES atthe newspaper's website. Take a look!